Improvement in bosom-boards



J. F. SCHLOSSSTEIN. Bosom-Board.

Patented Aug. 5,1879.

NITED STATE JOHN F. SCHLOSSSTEIN, OF FOUNTAIN CITY, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOSOlVl-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 215,140, dated August5, 1379; application filed April 111, i379.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. SeuLosss'rnIN, of' Fountain City, in thecounty of Buffalo and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Ironing-A Boards for Shirt-Bos0ms and SimilarArticles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebein g had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention consists in attaching to the sides of the board at one endfixed but clastic or yielding wires, to the outer extremities of whichis journaled a clamp bar or roller provided with a longitudinal grooveor rabbet in its operative or griping side, to act in conjunction withthe concavcd end of the board to clamp and hold the fabric of the shirt,all as more particularly hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view, showing the upper side;Fig. 2, a longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 a partial section enlarged,of my improved ironing board, showing the cloth or fabric stretchedaround the outer edge of and under the clampingbar, and then forcedupward from below between such bar and tite board.

A is the board; B, the clamping-bar7 and C G the yielding or elasticwires, and which, it will be seen, are fxedly and firmly secured to theopposite sides, respectively, of the board near one of its ends, andpreferably lodged in sunken recesses or grooves c therein, though it isevident they may otherwise be prevented from swinging or vibrating upontheir fastening screws or devices l by means of staples driven into thesides of the board 5 but I prefer the recesses because they allowthewires and their fastenings to lie Hush with or below the surface of theedges of the board, and therefore out of the way oi' the operations ofironing, and not liable to catch in or to tear the shirt.

The end of the board to which these stationary but yielding wires aresecured is concaved, as shown at c, the form of this concave beingI suchthat both its upper edge, j', and its lower edge, g', proect beyond thecurve of the concave. The edge j' considerably over- 'hangs the concave.The lower edge, g, however, need project but slightly.

The elalnpinglnn1 l has journals, by which it is hung or centered on theouter ends of the stationary wires C, and its form in crossscction is asshown in Figs. 2 and 3, lL being a rabbet or groove extending lengthwiseof the bar on the side adjacent to the end ofthe board. The upper edge,1'., of this rabbet, when the bar is turned upon its axis from theposition shown in Fig. 2, (the fabric being first wrapped around thisbar, and then tucked up from beneath into the space between the innerside of the bar and the eoncaved end of the board,) first takes hold ofthe fabric, and, stretching it pretty tightly around the l'ar, forces itup from below into said space ind close to the end of the board, and afur her turning of the bar upon its axis operates upon the fabric sothat the lower edge, j, of the rabbet may, by coming still nearer to theconcave end c of the board, take still another and n tighter gripe uponthe shirt, and when k#the barbas thus been turned to bring its upperface about iiush or parallel with the upper face of thc board, anypressure or bearing down upon the outer edge of the bar C in the act oi'ironing still more firmly tightens the gripe on the shirt, by forcingdownward such outer edge, 3/, of the bar, and consequently forcing theedge j upward still more closely and tightly against the part of theshirt lying between such edge and the projection j" of the concave. Theyielding wires U tend always to press the bar against the fabric and tohold it in place.

The portions of the bar which serve to seize or gripe the cloth may, ifdesired, be roughened in any fitting manner.

The board or table A, may be of any customary or desirable size orshape, and adapted at its head for holding the shirt in any convenientmanner. ln the forni shown the han` dlc k, besides performing the dutyof a handle, serves also to hold the neck-band of the shirt,

the board being,` placed within the shirt in the iecting' farther thanthe lower edge, g, and usualma11ue1',nud the neclehznnl 'nstencd oradapted to extend into the rabbet, and the buttoned around the handle.fixed bnt yielding wires C C, to which the bar I claiml is journaled.

The ironing-board described, consisting' of' JOHN F. SCHLOSSS'IEIN. thebar B, as made with thc rnhbet nml edges \Vit.nesses: i j on its upperinner edge, the hcrnd A,hn\' F. W. Smm.,

ing the concave c f g, the upper edge, f, prn- HENRY R'HIGER.

